By Laurie Baron SAN DIEGO — The Joyce Forum Short Film Festival is triply new. It will screen on October 6th and 7th at the David and Dorothea Garfield Theatre of the Lawrence Family JCC separately from the San Diego Jewish Film Festival becoming the first Jewish shorts film festival in the world. As the […]
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – In an irony of modern history, the marauding, barbaric, and pillaging destroyers of culture who came to be known collectively as ISIS inadvertently may have shed light on the story behind a shrine to the biblical Jonah as well as upon an ancient king of Assyria. Such
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Jewish Religion, Middle East, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO — Scaffolding, a Hebrew-language film with English subtitles, is a story of Asher (Asher Lax), a troubled 12th grade student, whose temper gets him in trouble with teachers, administrators, and other students alike. Asher has no respect for boundaries, nevertheless he has about him an innate sense of justice.
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
Intelligent Lives, a documentary by Dan Habib, scheduled for release September 21. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Intelligent Lives, a documentary by Dan Habib about the high potential of people with mental disabilities, is scheduled for New York City release Sept. 21 and around the country thereafter. Narrated by Chris Cooper, whose son
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Donald H. Harrison, Science, Medicine, & Education, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – “Time Enough at Last,” one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes, starred Burgess Meredith as a bank clerk who wanted nothing more than time to read. He was down in the bank vault doing just that when the world ended for all those aboveground. After he recovered from
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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Ken Stone Times of San Diego SAN DIEGO — A Brazilian Jew, a San Diego substitute teacher and a black British ex-model walk into a bar. What do you get? If drinks are served at the WorldBeat Cultural Center in Balboa Park, it’s the inaugural San Diego World Comedy Jam. Set for Oct. 12-14,
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International, Ken Stone, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Just hearing the title, The Heart of Rock & Roll, brought back memories of high school dances and singing Happy to be stuck with you to my girlfriend. And judging by the packed house on a Sunday night, I was in good company. “If you’re not supposed to be
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By Toby Klein Greenwald EFRAT, Israel — More than twelve years ago, a friend of mine, Myra Gutterman, came to me with a creative new idea. She had decided to record and transcribe the experiences of balaniot (mikva attendants) and of women who use the mikva (ritual bath), to be performed as a show
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By Sheldon Foster Merel ENCINITAS, California — BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee ‘s recently released film, covers the early years of the Black Power Movement in the 1970s , and most importantly exposes the Klu KLux Klan’s insidious agenda of racism, and Anti-Semitism in America. BlacKkKlansman is based on the life of Ron Stallworth who served as
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Cantor Sheldon Foster Merel, z"l, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABy Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Holocaust survivor Abraham Bursztein (Miguel Angel Sola), the protagonist in the Spanish language, English-subtitled film The Last Suit, has a promise to keep before his children in Argentina move him out of his house and pack him off to a retirement home. Angry at their insistence that he
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Donald H. Harrison, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Oliver B. Pollak LOS ANGELES — Amazon Prime has started running a Canadian comedy drama series set in Toronto. Erica Strange, a thirty-two-year-old single, plucky and career frustrated, is played by Erin Karpluk and her middle age time traveling therapist, Dr. Tom, by Michael Riley. It is a bewitching and beguiling mix up. At
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Oliver Pollak, Theatre, Film & Broadcast
“Not only was she a woman, but she was Japanese” – Glenn Scott Wright, director, Victoria Miro Gallery By Heather Z. Rothstain LOS ANGELES – I wasn’t interested in her work, then I watched this documentary. Move over Warhol, stand back Claes Oldenburg, Kusama’s time is now! Kusama Infinity – The Life and Art of
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International, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Theatre, Film & BroadcastBy Dorothea Shefer-Vanson MEVASSERET ZION, Israel — The name of the author, the actress Simone Signoret, caught my eye and I bought Adieu Volodia for 50 cents (521 pages, hardback) last summer while browsing the stalls at a village brocante, a kind of flea-market in rural France where the locals bring out the items they wish
1985 novel by Simone Signoret still captivates Read More »
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Love, Gilda, a CNN documentary by Lisa D’Appolito; to open Friday, September 21, at the Landmark Theatre in San Diego’s Kensington neighborhood. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – While growing up, Gilda Radner was teased unmercifully about being overweight. Her mother even put her on diet pills when she 10 years old. Knowing
If you’re an SNL fan, you’ll love ‘Love Gilda’ Read More »
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